‘Send Sheikh Hasina to graveyard’: Bangladesh Opposition chief offers open menace to PM

By Sahidul Hasan Khokon: A video of a BNP chief, which is the opposition social gathering in Bangladesh, is making rounds on social media the place he is heard giving an open menace to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, saying ‘Send Sheikh Hasina to her grave’.

Abu Sayeed Chan, a excessive BNP chief from Rajshahi, has publicly directed his activists for the 1975-styled assassination bid in direction of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in an oblique reference to the grotesque massacre of just about her whole family in a military coup then.

“No more movement to realise our 27-point or ten-point demands. Rather, our movement now should only revolve around one point- send Sheikh Hasina to her grave”, threatened Abu Sayeed Chan, convener, Rajshahi Zila unit.

Sheikh Hasina’s father, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, and members of his family have been killed in chilly blood on August fifteenth, 1975, by senior army officers, which plunged Bangladesh into political chaos. The massacre resulted in a military regime working the nation for lots of years, thereby suspending the democratic course of.

The BNP leaders have been calling for the ouster of this authorities throughout the subsequent three months with out an election. After the video went viral, Bangladesh Awami League’s verified Facebook net web page posted the clip with a caption “BNP publicly threatens to assassinate our leader Sheikh Hasina”.

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‘NO APOLOGY YET’

Even as a result of the video of an open menace to Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina has triggered a storm on social media, no excessive BNP chief has publicly provided any apology for Abu Sayeed Chan’s open menace.

This latest spherical of menace obtained right here months after a Juba Dal chief publicly threatened to restage “another 1975 kind of incident”, pointing to the grisly massacre that saw as many as 19 family members of Sheikh Hasina including her father, mother, sister among others gunned down by a group of disgruntled army officers, and journalists believed to be backed by powerful countries.

“Take up arms and restage another 1975,” Abdul Kader Bhuiyan, secretary of the Volunteer Front, a wing of the BNP had threatened months once more.

Sheikh Hasina has already survived larger than 19 assassination makes an try, along with the grenade assault in 2004 on an Awami League rally, throughout which spherical 32 leaders and activists have been killed. BNP’s performing Chairperson Tarique Rahman has been convicted by a courtroom for his involvement in planning the grenade assault.

Calling Abu Sayeed Chan’s assertion a “pointer of death threat”, Bangladesh’s Muktijuddho Mancha, has demanded the quick arrest of the BNP chief.

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